MOSCOW, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Russia will build eight new data centers and expand its transportation, energy and communications networks under a large-scale development plan through 2036, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced Monday.
The new data centers, to be built in phases, will accommodate more than 10,000 server racks, the government said.
Mishustin told a government meeting that the plan also includes the construction and reconstruction of some 4,500 kilometers of railways and over 2,000 kilometers of highways, as well as the installation of more than 800 kilometers of high-voltage power lines and nearly 20,000 kilometers of fiber-optic communication lines.
Russia's Ministry of Economic Development said the scale of the planned construction is unprecedented, with nearly 20 trillion rubles (about 240 billion U.S. dollars) in investments by 2036, equivalent to almost 10 percent of the country's current GDP. (1 Russian ruble = 0.012 U.S. dollar)
